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- ArthurSucks, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32You got the camera in the wrong direction. Turn it around.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29I cast no shadow and don't show up in photographs. Should I be concerned?
- deose, on 10/11/2007, -5/+31Let me get this right? Out of all 8 steps, it all comes out to
1. Turn flash off
2. make sure lighting is right so that the person comes out as a silhouette
3. Take picture - XTCinOvaltine, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Only if you have a lust for blood, only digg sites that have a black background, and have an uncanny liking of the music of Michael Buble.
- Anrkist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Every human loves their own brand... why can't we love each others?
- ThreeDee912, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I bet there would be alot more diggs if the title was "How to take photos like in the iPod commercials".
- ajchavar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6well you don't really need different tips for different cameras. they all work essentially the same, just with different bodies or mediums. . . i'm not sure if that helps. . . maybe you meant point and shoot v. professional or SLR?
the only thing to worry about with a point and shoot is that the autoflash is off, and that the meter won't meter off you want in shadow (which would blow out highlights and put detail where you want silhouette. the way to fix that is to meter off a bright part of your image and then re-compose your shot how you want. this boils down to (for a point and shoot) pointing your camera at the bright art of your frame, pushing the shutter button halfway down, and then recomposing (still held down) and pushing the shutter.
it also may help with a point and shoot to set your camera to landscape mode (mountain icon), to give you a larger DOF.
if you have an SLR, you probably know a bit more. . . so just meter off of your background and take a few shots, and then bracket from there if you feel the need. I find under-exposing helps in a tricky silhouette scene, because it will deepen colors in a sunlit scene, or if the results are less than desirable, it can be fixed in printing, or with bracketing.
/phew, didnt mean to write so much - 80hd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@AJ
Very nice tips. Sadly the only thing I have to disagree with is that SLR owners know more about photography.
I used to sell cameras and it would kill me when some guy who knew his stuff had to settle for something low end and some ditzy loaded person would walk out with an enthusiast's camera with all the accessories for it.
Luckily that was all rare though. - injury0314, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Just in time.
Now all i need is a camel toe for a subject. - ares623, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5i love photography. how i wish i could afford a good camera.
- ajchavar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+480hd- hahah i definitely didnt mean that as an nd all be all, just a generality, believe me, i know what you mean! but hey, we were all there one day. you have to start somewhere.
- osarhan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5A bit basic but useful I guess!
- ajchavar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3its not the camera its the photographer.
i bet nachtwey could still win a pulitzer with a disposable, its the artists vision, not his/her tools.
but if thats no consolation i bought my first pro-level camera with the money i saved doing portraiture work in hs with a prosumer digital. you can take great photos with any camera, though sometimes you do need to move on to a body with more options and tools to fit your style and needs. - Daniel591992, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Thanks for the response. In case you're wondering, I have a point and shoot DSCW100.
- t0ny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Well more like, shoot your subject with a bright background. :)
- drgmdp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3great! now you can put out an ad filled blog and claim to be a photography teacher!
- Proggie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Step 6 is wrong or misleading. Halfpressing on most cameras does not lock exposure, just autofocus. So if you halfpress when sensor is on bright background and recompose, the exposure will change back to expose your subject correctly. Additionally you'll focus on the background and not your subject.
You want to put your sensor onto the bright background and press the exposure lock button on your camera if it has it. Then recompose and refocus on the subject. - Daniel591992, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4This is off topic, but does anyone know of a site that has different camera models and tips for each camera?
digg me down, but let me know - paulocon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I thought it wasn't a bad article in fairness. As said, basic but practical advice.
- Paul @ http://www.photogtraphyvoter.com - 666dorado, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1it's even more basic than that. pick a background that is brighter than your subject. make sure flash is off. underexpose (your automatic camera automatically does this, especially if the bright scene dominates the frame. i hate articles by pseudo professional photographers.
- superkendall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1No, the author tries to address the problem of focus in step 8, not exposure. I was going to post and note his advice was really odd since focus was the easy part - just focus on the people/subject you are trying to silhouette, pretty much any camera lets you focus and recompose with a half-press. Corretly setting exposure usually means setting the camera to a spot focusing mode and making sure the bright part of the scene is the thing being metered, or using an exposure lock feature (AEL) if your camera has one.
- aura, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If it's more than 5 steps then it's not "Easy"
- Pertuberant, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Nice tips. Some of them are applicable and I'll try to use them in my practice.
- vs292, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The author tries to address this problem in step 8.
- drgmdp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1you can: just remember how cheap old film cameras are right now. get a pentax me super or a k1000 with split image viewfinder (well, that's a personal preference) and when you get the money then get a pentax dslr. k mount lenses are cheap too and you can use them with both
- cajie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yup - unless you have an exposure lock on your camera, re-composing does not guarantee the same exposure. It only ensures the focus remains locked, not the exposure.
Learned it the hard way. - arjie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yes. You are a groundhog with a broken camera.
- daveheinzel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I found it to be more like:
1: Hold your camera and take a silhouette photo. - rodbotic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I wish I had a DSLR as well, but you can do alot with a point n shoot (assuming it has A,S or M features)
Right now you can get a Kodak 712, with 12x optical and 7mp. and 0.2sec shutter Lag
and the only manual feature it doesn't have is manual focus. Bestbuy has it onsale for 299 right now.
I have a few models down from that and it hasn't failed me in what I was trying to do with it. - 666dorado, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0next article in the series: How to Take Pictures with Blown-Out Backgrounds...
- sirdaz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2@daveheinzel
That's just like saying.. Get bricks and build a house. A bit TO simplified - 666dorado, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0besides, silhouettes are gimmicks. all they are are underxposed forground subject matter.
- ModOps, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0It's very basic, but I think that was the point. Novices need info, too ;)
I was hoping for a Photoshop tutorial when I saw the headline. Oh, well. - 80hd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0you'd be surprised at how many point and shoot cameras have the ability to take photos like the ones you saw here.
My girlfriend has a new higher tier canon but I prefer to use a 4 year old sony because it has a nicer lens and manual access to controls.
More than anything though, a good photo is enabled by a good camera, not created by it. - t0ny, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Dude, good photographers dont need photo shop! :)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Liez
- Renton, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Crap cameras would be better for this since they don't have auto focus.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Hmm
1) Take Picture
2) Use Photoshop
3) ????
4) Profit - Typhoon2009, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0As they say in a glorious nation of a Kazakhstan, "Very nice!"
- audiowizard, on 10/11/2007, -25/+4I was reading this article, attempting a technique by taking a photo against the sunlit sky, holding my Canon in my left arm, when i caught a whiff of my underarm odor.
Is it normal to be fascinated by, and deeply enjoy your armpit odor?
I can't stop sniffing it...
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